GIN – ASIA 2010: Notes from Educator Discussion on Global Issues Education Resource Needs

This summer, the JUMP! Foundation will be providing interns to support a committee of GIN-Asia educators to compile a free and open-source database of global issues education resources. The aim is to create a database of resources that educators could use with their GIN groups, in their classrooms, outside the schools and in the communities around them. Below is the beginning of this list. If you have any questions, suggestions, or resources to add please email to global.issues.educator@gmail.com.

Recommended Websites:

• www.urgentevoke.com
• www.facingthefuture.org
• www.global-perspectives.info
• www.kiva.org
• www.georgraphyalltheway.com
• www.ted.com
• www.gapminder.org
• www.unculutured.com
• www.stairwayfoundation.org
• www.youthforhumanrights.org
• www.un.org/works
• www.cnn.com/heros
• www.cnn.com/impact

Available Resources that can be accessed currently:

• UNICEF: Voices of Youth
• Oxfam Curriculum
• High Noon
• Roots and Shoots Community Garden Resources
• AUSAID Curriculum
• Free the Children: Metowe
• Curriculum developed in different countries (e.g. – “Giving” in the UK)
• IBO S.L. Outcomes Assessments
• Connections w/ curriculum coordinators
• World Food Program Lesson Plans
• David Suzuki Foundation
• CIA Factbook for information about countries
• IBO Publications: Global Citizenship in the Classroom (by Boyd Roberts)
• State of the world factbook
• CIE – resources for IGCSE. Content based. United World College is developing this
• The Compass Schools (schools and sustainability)
• Teachers Curriculum Institute (geography curriculum)
• Tom Henley (As if the Earth Matters – book)
• European Council of Int. Schools (web site) – global issues resources
• UN Millenium Goals (posters, etc. available online)
• AP environmental science resources (list serve site)

Training Desired:

• Regional global issues retreat – teacher training (1/year, GIN off shoot)
• How to get teachers on board?
• Administrator buyin
• How do we creatively use our time?
• Leadership programs for youth and teachers (JUMP and other experiential ed providers)
• Apprentice program – older HS students pass onto younger students
• Planning process around an effective action project
• Success + difficulties of service projects
• How to have a dialogue with the community tm make sure donations + other action plans are effective?
• How do we train students to teach other students (mini lesson plans)
• Getting more teaches to conferences like this one
• Get administrators here
• Connecting NGO’s w/ teachers on training / specific issues
• Summer Institute in Asia
• EARCOS – global issues institute or an ongoing strand of conferences
• Lectures on wider range of issues with creative angel to subject + solution
• How do be an effective GIN leaders?
• How to create service learning?

Resources Desired / Questions:

• K-12 Global Issues Curriculum
• How to setup a community garden
• Directories of NGOS that everybody works with and trust- > divided into global issues and
• feedback on NGOs provided ***
• Age-appropriate material (UN official site is too advanced for certain things)
  • Various levels of understanding for age and also for past exposure to global issues.
  • Various topics
• Classroom simulations on global issues
• Planning process around action *
• Delivered service. Friend-raising, not fundraising. List of Action project ideas.
• What are international schools doing w/ global issues? (programs, courses)
• “How have you done this before.....” forum
• Problem based learning curriculum
• Simulations
• Speakers tours regionally who could talk with students or teachers
• Websites matched to issues
• List of books for a Global Issues Library
• Resources that can be accessed in China classrooms (.org or .com) related to valid topics **
• Assessment tools for service / development (students can measure impact; educators can get
• feedback)
• Documenting experiences on a networking site, providing in-depth personal narrative on what
• schools have been doing
• A website that holds all the resources. No “mining needed”
• Regional blogs for different regions regarding action issues we have witness
• Regional Groups that are perhaps issues based. Providing feedback pages focused on actions for
• the same problems
• Online Communities for Online Trainings
• Trainings at a GIN Conference
• A list of groups that could come to schools to lead workshops and activities (related to global
• issues)
• Some hub site for creative curriculum ideas to explore global issues

Ways to Share / Collaborate:

• Skype
• Global Village hour each week. For example Th. Evening at 19:00
• Face to face communication
• Simple one place to go for sharing MOODLE

Brainstorm for Online Platform

• to centralize useful, recommended GI resources for schools in this region • to help teachers provide meaningful opportunities for students to find their passion, learn about
• it and ACT
• to encourage and SUSTAIN GI collaboration amongst teachers and students in the region

• Curriculum-specific topics
• Subject area
• Global issue • Region

• NGO recommendations (tripadvisor style)
• field trip opportunities/ volunteer links
• ratings for resources and NGOs and trips etc
• weblinks should be annotated, so should other resources
• CALENDAR- with service opportunities- encourage collaboration à JOINT service trips

• Chat facility
• Leave comments
• Submit resources- lesson plans, curriculums, tips, websites etc.
• EVALUATIONS/ reflectionsa devise template

• Reflections
• Evidence submission
• Samples of work

• IBO community themes
• www.urgentevoke.com
• roots and shoots
• Student News Action Network
• Environmentalliteracy.org

• Teachers involved need a deadline for initial submissions (and perhaps guideline? Eg. Two tried + tested websites, one lesson plan and a recommended NGO/ Field trip)
• Make it easy
• Ensure the network is secure